Tag: Central America
Rights group calls for more pressure on Nicaragua government
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — An international human rights organization is calling for increased pressure on Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega as arrests of political opposition figures...
Migrant youth describe desperation to leave large shelters
A 13-year-old Honduran girl who spent two months at the government's largest emergency shelter for migrant children said she was put on suicide watch...
Mexico’s Caribbean coast hit by heavy seaweed, more expected
MEXICO CITY — Environmentalists and tourism operators on Mexico’s Caribbean coast are complaining about mounds of foul-smelling sargassum — a seaweed-like algae — that...
Biden outlines vaccine plan, set to miss global-sharing goal
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to fall short of his commitment to shipping 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end...
Ambassadors recalled after latest Nicaragua arrest
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Mexico and Argentina recalled their ambassadors to Nicaragua for consultations Monday, a day after President Daniel Ortega's government arrested yet another...
Mexico president to investigate border shooting of innocents
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Mexico’s president vowed to investigate the border shootings that left 19 dead over the weekend, even as the latest homicide...
Mexican president replaces head of anti-corruption agency
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president announced Monday he is replacing the head of the government’s anti-corruption agency, saying more reforms are needed.
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At least 15 die in multiple attacks near US-Mexico border
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Gunmen aboard a number of vehicles staged attacks in several neighborhoods in the Mexican border city of Reynosa on Saturday,...
Life-threatening flash flooding rises in Claudette’s path
NEW ORLEANS — Forecasters warned of life-threatening flash flooding in parts of the Deep South, particularly across central Alabama, as Tropical Depression Claudette traveled...
Mexican elderly lose work as grocery baggers, protest
MEXICO CITY — The coronavirus pandemic and changing consumer habits threaten to put an end to a decades-old practice of allowing elderly people in...